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Sea ice spread around Antarctica hits a record low
As parts of Australia set heatwave records and the government considered building new coal-fired power stations, the vast continent to the south last week quietly marked a milestone.
As parts of Australia set heatwave records and the government considered building new coal-fired power stations, the vast continent to the south last week quietly marked a milestone.
After years of failed promises, Victoria is on the cusp of getting its first large-scale solar power stations.
Less than one dollar in a thousand spent on health in Australia goes to one of the biggest threats facing the sector, a new paper finds.
The creation of a long-mooted national park on Melbourne's fringe could create up to 750 jobs by turning the area into an eco-tourism hub, an analysis has found.
Sydney has marked its hottest ever month, with extended warm spells setting records at all metropolitan sites.
Victoria and NSW have been warned they could follow South Australia in being hit by electricity blackouts in years ahead unless Canberra comes up with a bipartisan national plan to deal with energy and climate change.
Energy giant lodges its long-delayed application to develop the controversial Narrabri coal seam gas project.
Claims of a cover-up as a plant lost for two centuries turns up on a development site.
Coal mining in Sydney's water catchment could prove an early test for new Premier Gladys Berejiklian
Do big investments in solar energy point to a different future for the oil-rich nations of the Middle East?
Have a spate of bites and sightings up and down the NSW coast raised the odds that an attack awaits beachgoers this summer? Peter Hannam investigates.
Environmental groups want more time to consider the impacts of Santos' Narrabri CSG project that will include as many as 850 wells, producing more than 100 tonnes of waste salt alone per day.
When a goanna made a surprise appearance at the Mimosa Winery's restaurant one peaceful afternoon, a French waitress quickly took control of the situation.
Canberrans who were sick of the sweltering heat may have found themselves hugging the doona on Tuesday morning.
Caltex Australia has been fined $400,000 and ordered to pay court costs for an uncontrolled fuel discharge at its Port Botany terminal.
Four newborn kittens have been dumped in a McDonald's bag inside one of its Tasmanian restaurants.
Hundreds of scientists, environmental advocates and their supporters have rallied in Boston to protest what they see as increasing threats to science and research in the US.
A man has been killed after two cars collided on the NSW north coast, as a series of catastrophic thunderstorms swept across the state on Sunday.
Drones, sniffer dogs and land patrols are used in the regions war against noxious weeds.
London is choking from record levels of pollution, much of it caused by diesel cars and trucks, as well as wood-burning fires in private homes.
The Trump administration is preparing to roll back Obame-era environmental safeguards as Scott Pruitt prepares to take head up the Environmental Protection Agency.
"All the arrows are pointing in a very bad direction," says Danny Price, who sits on the government's Climate Change Authority.
Large hailstones as wide as 50¢ pieces lashed Sydney on Friday afternoon as severe storms hit the city.
Boston: Woolly mammoths - or, at least, animals with very similar DNA - could be brought back from extinction within two years, say scientists behind a ground-breaking resurrection project.
Labor's climate change spokesman Mark Butler has dismissed as "rubbish" widely circulating claims that Federal ALP had dropped its goal of achieving half of the nation's electricity will be supplied by renewable sources by 2030.
The amount of oxygen in oceans around the world has declined, a long-predicted result of climate change, scientists have revealed.
Lake Dumbleyung in WA's Wheatbelt is where Donald Campbell broke the world water speed record in 1964 in his iconic 'Bluebird' speedboat.
Unusually warm sea temperatures and the prospect for more to come have reef scientists worried that the Great Barrier Reef may experience another major coral bleaching event. And Sydney is also under threat.
It's the fight that has become the proxy war between the pro and anti coal forces in Australia and it's entering its fiercest round.
The booming market for home storage could be thrown into disarray if proposed safety guidelines force owners to move their battery units outside.
Fossil fuels will be, by far, the predominant factor in the early deaths of Australians by mid-century.
Thousands of bats have dropped dead from the heat, falling from the trees as scorching conditions enveloped parts of NSW at the weekend.
Scientists have discovered the presence of chemical pollutants in some of the ocean's deepest trenches, previously thought to be nearly untouched by human influence.
Sydney and much of NSW will take a rare break from this summer's extraordinary run of warmth, with a day or two of milder conditions before temperatures and fire risks start to climb again.
Consumers are voters and they won't forget who is to blame if there's a meltdown in our nation's energy supplies.
Meteorologists were predicting NSW would set a state-wide record for February warmth during the current heatwave but few would have tipped the mark would be broken two days in a row.
A small town in central western NSW has been "all but wiped out" in a bushfire that ravaged the area, a resident claims, as firefighters continue to battle more that 80 blazes burning across the state.
Former Republican congressman Bob Inglis knows something about the cost of climate change. It included his job.
NSW is facing the "worst possible fire conditions" in its history with a "catastrophic" warning in place across large slabs of the state after a heatwave smashed temperature records on Saturday.
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